Otone Peke

Otone Peke (乙音ペケ) is a Fanloid based off of Hatsune Miku.
 * Official Site

History
Peke's creation was inspired by a mistake Benine Rio made in the Vocaloid2 engine in 2008. While they were using it, out of curiosity they set every voice configuration as high/low as it could go, which resulted in the voicebank being completely silent. This inspired Rio to create a sort of "subspecies" of Vocaloid called Otone Peke, motivated by that failure that made voicebanks completely silent.

She was a fairly popular Fanloid for a long time during the VOCALOID2 era, but she slowly began fade into obscurity; until a user on YouTube, Mellun, created a Talkloid video featuring Peke. The video was about Len Kagamine, Rin Kagamine, and Piko Utatane attempting to find Otone Peke a voice. This motivated many fans to attempt to "give Peke a voice".

Etymology
Her name, "ペケ" (Peke) comes from the word for the × mark in Japanese that roughly translates to "useless", referring to her lack of a voice.

"ダメだ！こんなものペケだ！" (No! It's useless!)

Her surname "乙音" (Otone) means Sound of Nothing or No Sound. It comes from the phrase "音ねえ" which is a very heavily shortened and informal version of "音が出ない" which means "there is no sound."

音が出ない→音がない→音がねえ→音ねえ

"乙" is also a kanji character that practically has no meaning nowadays, and isn't used in modern Japanese, therefore her written surname is also a pun that means "Sound of Nothing."

Personality
According to her official site, Peke is described as a cheerful and optimistic girl. She always carries around a notebook to communicate with others.

Relations

 * Hatsune Miku: Admires
 * Kagamine Rin: Friends, calls her "Rin-chan"
 * Kagamine Len: Friends, calls him "Len-kun"
 * Akita Neru: Friends; Peke often accompanies her to bed
 * Yowane Haku: Friends, the most friendly towards her out of others
 * Tonarine Sai: Friends, calls her "Sai-Sai"

Trivia

 * Despite being popular, only some people understand the joke about Peke.
 * Contrary to popular belief, Peke does not speak using wind. This misconception is a reference to Mellun's Talkloid video featuring Peke, where every time Peke would "speak" to Len and Rin, only wind sound effects would be heard (signifying complete silence).
 * Many April Fools jokes included covers of Vocaloid songs with Peke, which are just instrumental versions of the song.
 * Many UTAU voicebanks have been created for Peke in an attempt to give her a singing voice. Some are just sampled from wind sounds, while others are original voicebanks recorded by a given user.